Snoop Dogg

Diplo is pretty much everything — a singer, performer, DJ, producer, and record executive. He's also a promiscuous collaborator, having worked with everyone from Gwen Stefani to Chris Brown to Snoop Dogg to Madonna.

He first gained attention for his work on M.I.A.'s early records, which sounded like nothing else at the time — like a futuristic bootleg cassette from some humid, hip-hop-saturated, Southeast Asian port city. He recently worked on Beyonce's "Lemonade" album, and, perhaps most inescapably, he teamed up with Skrillex and Justin Bieber to make "Where Are U Now," a single that turned snippets of vocals into dolphin sounds and generally drove home his...

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